Super refreshing blog! Colorful, light, and healthy…..and your photography is out-of-this-world. Thank you for what you do here, we’ll be sharing your blog with our CSA customers for unique veggie recipes.ReplyCancel

Hi Laura! I have been a long-time reader and am super inspired by your stunning recipes and photography. I just started my own food blog this past december (Chocolate + Chard) and aspire to create such beautiful and wholesome recipes as you :o). Also: I am SO excited that you now have a recipe index. Like whoa. Thanks so much for sharing your passion and skills with us! <3ReplyCancel

Hi Marcia, I keep meaning to set up a “print recipe” kind of thing, but so far haven’t found a solution that I’m happy with in terms of look and something that fits in with the site. There’s always the old copy + paste onto a word processor maneuver until I get it all figured out. Thanks for your feedback! :)
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Tina Hofmann30/04/2013 - 2:28 pm

WOW !! What a discovery your website is! Thanks Pinterest :)
Your photography is outstanding and I can’t wait to make up some of your recipes!!! Maybe I should try all and take it as a challenge for the year (as in Julie and Julia) :0)
Wonderful!ReplyCancel

Anna21/05/2013 - 12:35 am

I am headed to Colorado for the rest of the week for a good time of hiking and cooking. Just wanted you to know I am using all of your recipes for the trip. Very influenced by your blog and view of food. I think my man and I will thoroughly enjoy the meals you have created. Thank you so much!ReplyCancel

Carolyn Blackwell11/08/2013 - 1:54 am

So much delicious food, I can’t believe it. I too would like to easily be able to print this out. And you should definitely consider publishing a book. I would definitely buy it. Yum.ReplyCancel

I’ve been following you for a while but for some reason only today did I take the time to have a proper look through your recipes and I’m loving it! Such inventive veggie recipes, thanks for all the hard work! :)ReplyCancel

I have been cooking for my vegan boyfriend for two years now, and it makes me so excited to come across a blog like yours. You cook with all of my favorite ingredients, avocado, mushrooms, beets, squash, and toast! Thanks for recipes and inspiration. :)ReplyCancel

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Aimee04/11/2014 - 3:34 am

WOW! I am so excited to have just discovered your site, everything looks so delicious and healthy and nourishing and I love your writing. Can’t wait to get stuck in and claw my way out of my current recipe rutReplyCancel

tamecca25/11/2014 - 12:21 pm

This is my first time visiting your site and OMG I have never been so pleasantly overwhelmed with such goodness! Thanks so much for your compilation of awesome recipes, I am so excited to test and taste so many of them!ReplyCancel

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Erica Todorowich26/02/2015 - 8:20 pm

Looking forward with great excitement to your wonderful cooking/recipesReplyCancel

Brigitte16/03/2015 - 5:38 pm

Hi,
I am starting to make your Spaghetti Squash noodle bowl right now. I checked out the rest of your site and just want to compliment you. It is very nicely laid out and the recipes seem unique. I just pinned like half your site so I can try many recipes out later!
Thanks,
BrigitteReplyCancel

Sophie20/03/2015 - 7:02 am

For the past year or so I have been avidly reading your posts and using your recipes! I love your ethos, your recipes, your photos and your writing. But I have to finally comment that I DON’T love your new website. It takes SO much longer to load, has random adverts and this morning a film trailer covered most of the screen and kept popping up even though I had closed it several times. I understand you need some funding, but is there any way you could review this whole ad situation, it is totally distracting and undermines the great quality of what you are doing here?ReplyCancel

Hi Sophie,
Thanks for your comment and feedback. The decision to bring ads onto this site was a heavy one for me, and I’m still in the trial period of displaying them. Running a site like this with the level of work I put into it isn’t financially viable (to say the least) without ads/sponsored content. I am still very serious and passionate about the content that I present here. While I’m trying to figure it all out, I’ll see what I can do about slow-loading times. I get quite annoyed by those pop-up style ads that you mentioned, so I will look into this and see if it’s something I can put a stop to. I really am trying to meet in the middle on this and it’s all a work in progress.
Thanks again,
LauraReplyCancel

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Michele15/06/2015 - 4:35 pm

Wow! What I beautiful site to stumble upon!! Cannot wait to have some time to sit and weave through this site! Thanks!!ReplyCancel

Brockway Waddell07/07/2015 - 11:10 am

Now that you’ve won the So Delicious “Shake-Off,” perhaps you’d consider “veganizing” the remaining non-vegan recipes on your site? Hopefully participating in that competition helped you recognize that animal products never need to be a part of what we put in our bodies; you can make delicious, nutritious, beautiful-looking food without harming other animals.

Thank you for this wonderful resource and all the great recipes!ReplyCancel

m29/08/2015 - 6:02 am

Hi! You have such a great and inspiring blog! I love it! I already pinned so many things here! :)ReplyCancel

Avigail06/01/2016 - 12:52 am

Your blog is seriously revolutionizing my life and making me cook more – and love both cooking and the food I’m eating. Thank you!! Now…can you please make something with my favorite new ingredient: freekeh???ReplyCancel

Mel24/01/2016 - 7:29 am

I can’t describe how happy I am to find this site – we started with the happy hour shake (yummy with kale instead of spinach) for breakfast and will no longer be struggling for inspiration, my daughters and I are all gluten intolerant and even though I can’t tolerate cow’s milk I’ve been struggling with converting to veganism… I don’t think it’ll be a problem now… thanks so much for sharing :)ReplyCancel

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Jenna31/05/2016 - 9:05 pm

Hey Laura!
Is it just me or is the search bar gone?
Please bring it back if you decided to take it away!ReplyCancel

Bree Johnson19/06/2016 - 10:42 pm

Hi! I’m so glad that I stumbled upon your lovely website. You see I just made 17 last week and I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 6 years old (by choice) i’m also lactose intolerant. Since i’m the only one in my very large family, so you can only imagine how difficult it is. I’m an extremely picky eater and I eat the same basic things, of pizza, pasta, rice, bread, and salad. I haven’t had much of an appetite from what i’m assuming i suppose i’m sick of eating the same things every single day and my doctor said I was on the verge of becoming an anorexic, so this helps alot. So thank you so much for this you’ve helped me out a great deal ^_^ReplyCancel

aubs31/05/2017 - 11:29 pm

Bree, I totally identify with your story and current predicament, and just stumbled across this website.. hoping that it helps us both and others, too :)
-Keep doing what you’re doing, Laura!!ReplyCancel

[…] I bought a copy of this cookbook, downtown Toronto, on a whim. I don’t normally spend money on cookbooks because it’s all on the internet, right? Wrong. The First Mess blog is great but between all the other blogs I follow and the millions of recipes they share on a daily basis — I never truly got to know Laura Wright’s style of cooking. The photos, the food, the stories, they blend together. This cookbook allowed The First Mess to stand out in my mind. Now, I’m more inclined to visit the blog or recognize Laura’s work. […]ReplyCancel

Hi Asher,
If you scroll to the bottom of any of my recipes (just before the comments section), you’ll see a heading that says “Filed in:” and there will be a list of categories. Within those categories, you’ll find the relevant seasons that the recipe applies to. From there, you can click on the season and you’ll get a page dedicated to all relevant seasonal recipes. Hope this helps!
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Wow you are AMAZING!!! Thank you so much for all these beautiful recipes that you so clearly spent so much time developing! Just ordered the cookbook!! Can’t wait to cook some of these!!! I wish I came across this website sooner!ReplyCancel

Hi Laura!
I usually don’t buy cookbooks but honestly I absolutely want to make every recipe in your book. I love that you focus on cooking seasonally and simple recipes. The intro was enjoyable to read about your story and the necessities in the kitchen such as the ingredients and appliances. Bravo for the non stop work and in sharing your passion and love with us.